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I will be starting to learn spring so I tried to download the latest sping version but I have encountered a problem and Im stuck. I can't find the distribution jar files. All I can see are java source files.

Here are the steps I did :

  1. I went to this link projects
  2. I clicked the Spring Framework link.
  3. I checked the page and found nothing until I noticed the Cat Image
  4. Download the zip and extracted it.
  5. I checked the folder spring-core and found src folder. I tried to find any dist folder but found nothing except java files.

I did not bother to open all folders because I think it would be a waste of time. Please help me. Im just starting to learn and now a bit frustrated.

Sotirios Delimanolis
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user3268283
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    Consider using Maven. – Sotirios Delimanolis Feb 04 '14 at 03:25
  • https://spring.io/guides/gs/maven/ Honestly, there's no reason not to use a build system / dependency manager with Java. Your IDE will also fully integrate with Maven. If you really, really insist on downloading jars manually, you can get them from [Maven central](http://search.maven.org) – Brian Roach Feb 04 '14 at 03:30
  • SotiriosDelimanolis and BrianRoach I will consider your suggestions. Thanks you very much. Its just Im still confused on what to do. – user3268283 Feb 04 '14 at 03:45
  • Just a couple of comments: – mikemil Feb 04 '14 at 03:50
  • Just a couple of comments: 1) the 'cat image' is the link to GitHub where the source code resides 2) from the source you can build the distribution jars - on the GitHub page it mentioned part way down to run ./gradlew build - which will build Spring from the source. There is also a link on that GitHub page titled 'Downloading the artifacts' which takes you to a page that helps you with downloading from Maven, as @SotiriosDelimanolis suggested. If you are new to Spring, as it sounds, using Maven is probably quicker. – mikemil Feb 04 '14 at 03:56
  • @mikemil Im actually virgin to Spring and MVC altogether. LOL – user3268283 Feb 04 '14 at 04:03
  • So building Spring from the source may be a bit too big of a bite to start with. If you can use maven to point to your test Spring code that would be a bit easier. Possibly a better option for you would be to read thru this post, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19469542/downloading-spring-jars-without-using-maven because there is a link to downloading the jars - then all you need to do is pointto them whereever you save them on your box. – mikemil Feb 04 '14 at 04:13
  • Hey.. before you go for maven, look at Gradle, it is a mix of maven and ant. You can use Maven repo and also use Ant style script. Great tool, no need to manually add .jars. – Zeus Feb 04 '14 at 05:27

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1) consider all comments already given on your question, gradle and maven are very helpfull, and help you with nested dependecies

2) http://repo.spring.io/release/org/springframework/spring/

Emanuele Righetto
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